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Great Britain I’ve encountered this several times now in my research: during the late eighteenth/early nineteenth century, “anti-racism” was briefly ascendant in social science in […]

Michigan This ties in nicely with our historical discussion of how Adam Smith’s free labor ideology was foolishly imposed on the slave societies in the […]

BRA Here’s the latest from the most important election of our lifetimes on which the fate of America hinges: “By JORDAN FABIAN MIAMI, Sept. 19, […]

South Carolina Here’s the link to the SNN podcast that I did this afternoon on my review of Inhuman Bondage by David Brion Davis. Note: […]

Maryland H/T Kosher Republic This is getting bigger than I expected it would be. If I was Matt, I would send a letter to the […]

Mississippi The ex-slave Charlie Davenport remembers slavery during the Great Depression: “Insisting that “us didn’t b’long to no white trash,” Davenport, like many slaves and […]

Greece For years, there has been considerable speculation on the internet as to whether “the collapse” would come, and whether it would work to our […]

Ireland This is a great point. I’m reading about how James Henry Hammond attacked the British abolitionists by pointing out how the same philanthropists full […]

Antebellum South This is interesting and draws upon Drew Gilpin Faust’s older book A Sacred Circle: The Dilemma of the Intellectual in the Old South, […]

Chick-fil-A I’m not surprised at all: Kevin DeAnna called it back in August at the height of the mania. Note: I would be less surprised […]

C & W music singer Alan Jackson recorded an interesting song “Gone Country” in the 90s with a theme that should interest OD readers: Lonely, […]

Germany I found this in the Inhuman Bondage footnotes: “According to Imanuel Geiss, the neologism “racism” originated in Germany in the 1920s as a polemical […]

United Kingdom H/T Palmetto Patriot Someone might ask the obvious question: seeing as how most people in modern Britain are certain that God doesn’t exist, […]

Twitter H/T Gregory Hood Very concise: “It’s the job of the Establishment to confine the range of debate within narrow limits, to designate certain opinions […]

California Watch this and decide whether you are voting for Mitt Romney:

CSA David Brion Davis attempts to put a dollar value on the economic cost of abolition: “Few wars in human history have led to such […]

Pennsylvania H/T Kosher Republic Professor Akhil Reed Amar of Yale Law School lauds Lincoln’s War for overthrowing the Constitution: Note: The single worst mistake in […]

United States. It is interesting to see David Brion Davis admit in Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of New World Slavery that modern economic […]

Florida Obama Girl 2012.

Cuba This excerpt comes from Franklin W. Knight’s Slave Society in Cuba During the Nineteenth Century and references the destruction of Louisiana’s sugar industry by […]

Dixie Andrew Hamilton has a new essay at Counter-Currents about the surprising relative lack of anti-Semitism in the Old South. This paradox troubles some White […]

New York 40,000+ are packed into Yankee stadium to see Madonna: “I’ve seen some scary things. I’ve seen people being locked up and put in […]

USA Today USA Today is crowing about it … fortunately, Mitt Romney will stop this after he wins the presidential election in November: “The number […]

BRA Meanwhile, while OD is immersed in historical escapism and globetrotting through foreign countries, the sluts are uniting at the DNC and putting on a […]

VDARE Derb is trying to understand the roots of White ethnomasochism at VDARE and Takimag. Seeing as how this is a historical inquiry and intersects […]

DNC H/T Gregory Hood The Daily Show with Jon StewartGet More: Daily Show Full Episodes,Political Humor & Satire Blog,The Daily Show on Facebook

Maryland Congratulations to Matthew Heimbach for creating a White Student Union at Towson University and drawing the ire of the ADL.

Caribbean Stephen Palmie and Francisco A. Scarano’s The Caribbean: A History of the Region and Its Peoples is a sweeping 600+ page overview of the […]

North Carolina Kyle Rogers has the story.

Counter-Currents Mitt Romney has lost Matt Parrott to The Empty Chair. I had been planning to write a definitive post explaining why I am not […]

Barbados The following excerpt comes from Matthew Parker’s The Sugar Barons: Family, Corruption, Empire, and War in the West Indies and describes the emergence of […]